Clasp for suspender-ends.



PATENTBD AUG. 11, 190s. E. E. STUVER. CLASP PoR SUSPENDER ENDS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 21. 1903. N0 MODEL.

UNITED" l )STATES latented .August 11, 1903.

EUGENE E. STUVER, OF BLUEMOUND, ILLINOIS.

CLASP FOR SUSPENDER-ENDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patel-1tv No. 736,170, datedAugust 11, 1,903.

Application tiled May 21,1903.

To all whom it 11i/ty concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE E. STUVER, a

1 citizen of the United States, residing at Bluemound, in the county ofMacon and State Of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Clasps for Suspender-Ends, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in Suspenders, and is moreparticularly adapted in its application to suspender ends or tabs,

the objects being to provide a device of this character which,primarily, will-avoid the use of buttons or buttonholes on the trousersor other garment to be supported. My improve- Inent contemplates thesubstitution therefor of a neat, simplejand easily-operated device whichwill positively engage the material of the garment and removably retainit until it is desired to release the garment from the suspender; and itconsists in an inexpensive gripping device applied to the tabs of theSuspenders and adapted to receive between its jaws the materialof thegarment, the jaws adapted to releasably grasp the material and yet notinjure it in the slightest degree.

To these ends my invention consists in cer` tain novel combinations ofpart-s, such as will be more fully described hereinafter, andparticularly set forth in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l isA an enlarged view, in sideelevation, of my improvement attached to a suspender-tab and grasping apiece ofjmaterial; and Fig. 2 is a perspective view with the jaws open.

loosely through apertures 7 7 isa staple 8, curved or bent' in the areof :a circle the center of which is the hinge, 'and hinged upon thecross-bar ofthis staple is a clamping-lever 9, provided with a cam 10,which is adapted Serial No. 158.159. (No modelJ of the pivotal support.

To release the garment, all that is necessary is to lift the lever,whereupon the pressure is removed and the material can be withdrawn fromthe jaws.

The plates are preferably constructed of some resilient material, andthey may be spreadapart and the jaws opened whenever the lever is swungbackward or open,as shown in Fig. 2. The staple is formed or bent intothe arc of a circle to permit plate l to move up and down thereon 0n itshinge without binding.

It is evident that manyslight changes might be made in the form andarrangement of the several parts described without departing from thespirit and scope of my in vention, and hence I do not wish to limitmyself to the exact construction herein set forth; but

Having thus fully disclosed my invention, what. I claim as new,and'desire to secure by Letters Patent, i s

A suspender-clasp comprising two plates hinged together at one end andhaving jaws at the free ends, one jaw having holes therein, a stapleextending through and fitted tO these holes', said staple bent in thearc of a circle with the hinge as its center and the ends of the staplesecured to the other plate, and a lever hinged to the staple center andprovided with a rounded cam which forces and locks, the jaws togetherwhen swung inwardly against the adjacent jaw.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

EUGENE E. STUVER IVitnesses: l

JACOB DYE, ALONZO SMITH.

